Donna Hopper Prevete, left, and Robert Prevete have been charged with burglarizing the historic Ringwood Manor on April 20, state park police said.Department of Environmental Protection

RINGWOOD — A couple were arrested and charged in the burglary of the historic Ringwood Manor last month, authorities said.

It was the new, “state-of-the-art” security system installed at the site after a 2011 burglary which resulted in the arrests, they added.

Robert Prevete, 44, and Donna Hopper Prevete, 48, were arrested at their Haskell home on May 7, and charged in the April 20 burglary, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

The pair are accused of forcing open a rear window, and also forcing open the front door to get in and out of the recently-renovated manor, officials said.

The two were caught on surveillance cameras forcing their way into the structure, the DEP said. The State Park Police were able to identify the couple using the footage, with the help of local police departments, authorities said.

Investigators believe the Prevetes did not steal anything from the manor during the burglary, they said.

Donna Hopper Prevete was released after a first court appearance on Thursday afternoon. However, Robert Prevete remains in the Passaic County Jail on $30,000 bail, according to the DEP.

The upgraded security system was installed at the site following a 2011 break-in, in which the thieves stole valuable artifacts, including two landscape paintings worth $300,000, in addition to silverware, clocks, vases and several Civil War-era guns, according to reports from the time. No arrests have been made in that theft, officials said.

The upgrade to the security was part of a series of improvements to historic sites in New Jersey, said Larry Ragonese, a spokesman for the DEP.

"It's a message we're sending to everyone: we don't want people messing with our history," he said.

The manor, built in the 1800s, was reopened on April 25 after being closed for more than two years, according to officials. In January 2012, a furnace malfunction spread soot throughout the entire museum.